On January 25, 2017, the Sergiev Posad City Court continued its consideration of the criminal case against Vyacheslav Stepanov (39 years old) and Andrey Sivak (42 years old), elders of the local Christian congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are accused under the article "extremism". The next hearing is scheduled for February 20, 2017.
As follows from the brief chronology, this criminal prosecution for faith has been going on for almost seven years.